wild dog

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) another name for dingo

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wild dog - any of various undomesticated mammals of the family Canidae that are thought to resemble domestic dogs as distinguished from jackals or wolves

Canidae, family Canidae - dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes

canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzles

Canis dingo, dingo, warragal, warrigal - wolflike yellowish-brown wild dog of Australia

Cuon alpinus, dhole - fierce wild dog of the forests of central and southeast Asia that hunts in packs

crab-eating dog, crab-eating fox, Dusicyon cancrivorus - wild dog of northern South America

Nyctereutes procyonides, raccoon dog - small wild dog of eastern Asia having facial markings like those of a raccoon

African hunting dog, Cape hunting dog, hyena dog, Lycaon pictus - a powerful doglike mammal of southern and eastern Africa that hunts in large packs; now rare in settled area

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African hunting dog
Buansuah
Canidae
Canis
Canis dingo
Cape hunting dog
crab-eating dog
crab-eating fox
Cuon
Cuon alpinus
Cyon
dhole
dingo
Dusicyon cancrivorus
family Canidae
genus Canis
genus Cuon
genus Cyon
Hep tree

Other men, who had no land and no fish-traps, and who else would have gone hungry, were glad to work for Pig-Jaw, caring for his goats, guarding them from wild dogs and tigers, and driving them to the feeding pastures in the mountains.

The Strength of the Strong by London, Jack View in context

Perry argues that wild dogs were first domesticated for hunting purposes; but I do not agree with him.

Pellucidar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context

Each was given a dagger and then, at the far end, a pack of twelve calots, or wild dogs were loosed upon them.

A Princess of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context